“This election is really important. We are at a moment in time
where, if nobody takes anything for granted and people work really, really
hard right up to the last minute in November, we really could change things.”
Steve Earle’s pronouncement makes clear the essential and frequently
repeated point of Labor Day... read
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The Bush Administration’s eight-year reign over the United States
reminded us how enigmatic national elections can be. It takes a special
group of people to realign an election with the principles on which the
process was originally founded. Moviemaker Glenn Silber understands this
and has created an eye-opening documentary as a result... read
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Made by Glenn Silber, the Oscar-nominated co-director of The War at
Home, it's a good, powerful, joyous, and finally inspiring look at
one labor union's (the SEIU's) fight to elect Barack Obama President in
2008. Watch it and remember what political passion, populism and dedication
are all about... read
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MAGAZINE | 10/28/2009Silber's Labor Day attributes our significant attitude
change about health care not only to the grass-roots campaign efforts
of Obama supporters, but, importantly, the salt-of-the earth mobilization
of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)... read
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STATE JOURNAL | 10/27/2009Glenn Silber calls his new movie "Labor Day"
"The War at Home Part II". That's quite a statement for anyone
who has seen the Oscar-nominated "The War at Home," Silber's
searing 1979 documentary about antiwar protests in Madison... read
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